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Ben Myring

@benmyring.bsky.social
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Cultivator of geekery and other eccentricities.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 26/09/2026
Demolition of the old aracde that blocked the view of Peckham Rye station is starting to give a hint of how it will look when the hordings come down.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Spot on from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social North Sea drilling makes no economic or energy security sense - but “the policy could scarcely be better designed to give the final push to voters who are minded – after so many disappointments since 2024 – to abandon Labour for a progressive alternative”
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Is Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? | George Monbiot
Climate catastrophe is on our doorstep – yet Labour’s impending approval of further drilling will bring more pain for negligible gains, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Mike Blackmore @blacky-himself.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
##ChalkStream #RiverRestoration restoring a hiddeous old "fish stew" back to a thriving chalk stream. River Test, Hampshire
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Ben Myring @benmyring.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is wonderful - if you need cheering up then this is a real tonic. ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Pᴜʀᴇ Dᴇᴀᴅ Gᴀᴍɪɴɢ @puredeadgaming.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The results of the video I posted earlier was this iconic shot 👏 Danny León and his crew smashed it.
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Ben Myring @benmyring.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Fantastic essay on the link between myth and our lost cousins. unherd.com/2026/07/why-...
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Why we can’t outrun the Neanderthals
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This week's column explains how successive Environment Secretaries in the UK have been actively facilitating ecocide on behalf of industrial lobbyists. Charged with protecting the living world, one after another has been working for the enemy. This has to change.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot
Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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The Ronettes Pickering @stoatie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"what radicalized you?" "when i was 7 i watched a chicken sing a sad protest song in jail, a mother rabbit sacrifice her own food to feed her children, and a badger cleric get arrested for standing up to injustice."
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
also this is the finest song and scene Disney ever animated. crazy to look at the live action and infinte-sequel slop they churn out today, and then back on what they used to do. youtu.be/wTqQrRZi66Q?...
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"Robin Hood" 1973 // Not in Nottingham Scene HD
YouTube video by Movie Scene
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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Ben Myring @benmyring.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?
In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals
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Simon Pease @simonpease.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is a national scandal. It is so obvious that the only aim is to save build costs for developers. And deprive us of the benefits of shade and cheaper power generation. It’s not even a lack of vision it’s inimical dislike of progress and reduction in quick profits.
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Big gap for being the “basic manners” party
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This whole thread.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is a very sensible plan for funding London's bridges. More importantly it is a very beautiful plan, or could be. www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-bui...
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How to build a street bridge
Could London's bridges pay for themselves?
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
But only one Labour PM was successful enough to fire him twice.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Ed Miliband today: "The era of fossil fuel security is over and the era of clean energy security must come of age....To ignore two crises in less than five years would be completely irresponsible… our action must now be faster deeper and more wide ranging.”
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Miliband doubles down on net zero - Energy Live News
Labour to announce breaking the link between gas and electricity prices and more renewables push
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/04/2026
HOLY SHIT
The Moon! The Sun's corona! A crewed spacecraft! Oh my!
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Bourne Identity (2002) / The Hidalgo Legacy (2026)
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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
«What a wonderful victory! … Thank you to the people of Paris. … I would like to thank the voters who turned out in such large numbers to make their choice about the future of Paris. And that choice is clear and indisputable. … » @annehidalgo.bsky.social
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 28/02/2026
Oxford Street is going traffic-free. I’ve given the green light to transform it into a world-class, fully accessible pedestrian avenue. The heart of London, reclaimed for people.
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The busiest road in London is officially going car-free – as plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street have just been given the green light
Sadiq Khan has confirmed that the plans to pedestrianise the busiest street in London could come into effect as early as summer 2026.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
this is absolutely fantastic
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Great video. The homes are thoughtful, attractive and well designed. Khan is eloquent and considerate. Much more like this please.
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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Thank you to @adamvaughan.bsky.social of the Times for covering the work of the Knepp beavers. They're busy rewilding the land, holding back flood water, cleaning streams. We urgently need more beavers in the UK. We urge the government to speed up wild releases. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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More beavers released but critics say it’s too dam slow to rewild England
Environmentalists criticise Labour’s slow and expensive rewilding project as a ‘bumbling bugger-up’
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Mark Carney has delivered one of the most important speeches of our era. There is a better future waiting for Britain if we dare to follow his example. inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 04/01/2026
Happy birthday to J.R.R. Tolkien, who faced the worst of humanity and dreamed anyway.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10/12/2025
J.R.R. Tolkien, literal Butlerian Jihadist
from a letter by JRR Tolkien to his son Michael:

[here is] the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind, it attempts to actualize desire, and so to create power in this World; and that cannot really be done with any real satisfaction. Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour. And in addition to this fundamental disability of a creature, is added the Fall, which makes our devices not only fail of their desire but turn to new and horrible evil. So we come inevitably from Daedalus and Icarus to the Giant Bomber. It is not an advance in wisdom! This terrible truth, glimpsed long ago by Sam Butler, sticks out so plainly and is so horrifyingly exhibited in our time, with its even worse menace for the future, that it seems almost a world wide mental disease that only a tiny minority perceive it. Even if people have ever heard the legends (which is getting rarer) they have no inkling of their portent. How could a maker of motorbikes name his product Ixion cycles! Ixion, who was bound for ever in hell on a perpetually revolving wheel! Well, I have got over 2 thousand words onto this little flimsy airletter; and I will forgive the Mordor-gadgets some of their sins, if they will bring it quickly to you
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
CAMBRIDGE: New data. Clear preferences. The public want buildings that fit in, not stick out. A new poll by DeltapollUK Create Streets finds 71% of Britons prefer a traditional alternative to the current design for the Christ’s College library.
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Ben Myring @benmyring.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
A pedestrianised Soho would be such a victory for civilisation. www.standard.co.uk/homesandprop...
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First look: new proposals to pedestrianise Soho unveiled
Architects John Lacey and Russell Potter have put forward proposals to close key Soho streets off to cars in a move to prioritise people
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
This is excellent
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
My article in The Times today, telling the tale of our family summer holiday to Kusadasi by train (includes a quote from Eurostar’s train manager Blake!): www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
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My two-week Tring to Turkey rail holiday — that even won over my teens
Mark Smith, the voice of rail travel website The Man in Seat 61, gathers his family and takes the scenic route to the Turquoise Coast via Prague, Budapest and more
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The fact that people are allowed to store their cars in the street is really weird - after all, a car is an individual's own private property and their responsibility. I can't think of a single other item you can store in public in this way.
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
EUROSTAR GOES DOUBLE-DECK: Eurostar confirms order for 30 new double-deck trains from Alstom, similar to TGV-M, with option for 20 more, in service from May 2031. The 200m sets can run to/from London as 2 x 200m with 1,080 seats. (Another move in the Battle for Temple Mills...)
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I remember, many years ago now (with ny transport strategist hat on) being asked in a BBC interview if Crossrail would be Khan's biggest legacy. The thing that had the biggest impact on London. I said: "No. It'll be ULEZ." (The low emissions zone)
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine". Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 30/09/2025
In the heart of Seoul, a ribbon of water now threads through where an expanse of asphalt once stood. The Cheonggyecheon Stream restoration, which replaced a major elevated motorway with an ecological and recreational corridor, has become a powerful case study in placemaking and traffic evaporation.🧵
Nighttime photos of the Cheonggyecheon Stream in Downtown Seoul, a former motorway restored into a linear park with wide footpaths, terraced seating, accented lighting, and abundant greenery.Nighttime photos of the Cheonggyecheon Stream in Downtown Seoul, a former motorway restored into a linear park with wide footpaths, terraced seating, accented lighting, and abundant greenery.Nighttime photos of the Cheonggyecheon Stream in Downtown Seoul, a former motorway restored into a linear park with wide footpaths, terraced seating, accented lighting, and abundant greenery.Nighttime photos of the Cheonggyecheon Stream in Downtown Seoul, a former motorway restored into a linear park with wide footpaths, terraced seating, accented lighting, and abundant greenery.
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 29/09/2025
I think this might be one of the most clear-eyed articles about Cyberpunk 2077 I've read. Actually looking at the game's themes, rather than getting caught up on a thought-terminating cliche and single word in the title.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
What "we" don't talk about enough is that, behind ALL the talk on immigration, there is the massive, looming presence of an awareness that an age of prosperity is over, things will probably just get worse, and "we" should build walls to hide behind, before it's too late.
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Ben Myring @benmyring.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
All too often we think and behave like a satrapy.
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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Some years ago I went to the National Archives to see the original of this map, drawn by TE Lawrence and presented to the British war cabinet in November 1918. Proposes a divvying up in which Faisal getting Syria and Transjordan, and Abdullah gets Iraq. Always struck by the ?? over Kurdistan.
Lawrence of Arabia's map, presented to the Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet in November 1918
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Great to see that government WILL ban moorland burning on peat deeper than 30cm, and over a much greater area than previously Big win for communities who've suffered the smoke + floods stemming from this Victorian practice Only losers are ~150 wealthy grouse moor owners www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Burning banned on England’s deep peat to protect wildlife
Ban on burning heather and grass on deep peat extended to improve air quality for local communities, reduce flood risk and protect wildlife.
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Ben Myring @benmyring.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Foundation is the finest show on TV right now. The preposterous scale of it, and the sheer quality of the implementation.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 03/09/2025
Just a kickass episode of the Alien show, I dunno what else to tell you. I mean, I guess I *do* know what else to tell you, because here's a whole review, but that's the gist of it. (gift link)
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Alien: Earth’ Episode 5 Recap: Ghost Ship
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 05/08/2025
Over the past weekend, people got a first glimpse of what a future HS2 train might look like when an early concept was shown off at The Greatest Gathering. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/fro...
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From frosted glass to fold-out toddler seats: The details shaping HS2's new trains
Over the past weekend, people got a first glimpse of what a future HS2 train might look like when an early concept was shown off at The Greatest Gathering.
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Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
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